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Raging Streams Obliterated Many
Miles of Roadway and Pavement
8. Lytle Creek inundated areas in vicinity of Colton in San Ber'-
nardino County leaving autos stuck in silt on State Highway 26.
9. Rushing through Santa Ana Canyon in Or ange County, the
Santa Ana River chans;ied its course and washed out State
Highway construction that will cost more than $100,000 to
resto r e.
10. Garapito Creek coursing through Topanga Canyon in Los
Angeles County gouged out a large portion of Highway 156.
11. Small streams from the slopes of the Santa Susana Mountains
made a wild torrent of Gavin Creek that destroyed part of
Route 4 in Weldon Canyon.
12. The Big Tujunga Wash which crosses the route of State High-
way 9 near Sunland wreaked destruction on roads and bridges.
13. Embankment was washed out together with half the Newhall -
Saugus highway when a creek became a river.
14. The flood roaring down Santa Monica Canyon joined with high -
ocean waves to undermine the Coast Highway at the canyon's
mouth.
